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Better Than Being There

The Spectrum of Place and Time

Imagine a world

in which it is easy to move between in-person and virtual experiences. In this future world, we will always be online and enhanced, unless we choose to be offline. While the goal of virtual meetings used to be approximate face-to-face meetings, the new mantra will be to create ways of working that are better than in-person offices alone. Better ways of working, better ways of living, better ways of making the future. COVID-19 hybrid work was only an incremental step toward the officeverse—a nested network of networks.

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